FACING OURSELVES

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 06
FACING OURSELVES . . . and Fear says, "You dare not look!"   TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49

How  often  I  avoided  a  task  in  my  drinking  days  just because it appeared so large! Is it any wonder, even if I have been sober for some time, that I will act that same way when faced with what appears to be a monumental job, such as a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself? What I discover after I have arrived at the other side—when my inventory is completed—is that the illusion was greater than the reality. The fear of facing myself kept me at a standstill and, until I became willing to put pencil to paper, I was arresting my growth based on an intangible.